"A Picador paperback original"--Cover

"Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-239) and index

The tyrant's bloody robe -- 1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: SOS violence -- Violence: subjective and objective -- The good men from Porto Davos -- A liberal-Communist village -- Sexuality in the atonal world -- 2: Allego moderato--adagio: Fear thy neighbour as theyself! -- The politics of fear -- The neighbour thing -- The violence of language -- 3: Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: "A blood-dimmed tide is loosed" -- A strange case of phatic communication -- Terrorist resentment -- The subject supposed to loot and rape -- 4: Presto: Antinomies of tolerant reason -- Liberalism or fundamentalism? A plague on both their houses! -- The Jerusalem chalk circle -- The anonymous religion of Atheism -- 5: Molto adagio--andante: Tolerance as an ideological category -- The cultrualisation of politics -- The effective universality -- Acheronta movebo: the infernal regions -- 6: Allegro: Divine violence -- Benjamin with Hitchcock -- Divine violence: what it is not ... -- ... and finally, what it is!

"Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; and, in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists." "Beginning with a series of contemplative questions, Zizek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers."--BOOK JACKET

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